Saturday, October 10, 2015

A DIFFERENT ANGLE (photo) & SEE HOW (dream tanka pair) by Roswila

framing, and framing
yet again, to find the right one
large, small, square, or round
the shape that holds a photo
its crucial finishing touch

look! see how a wide
frame completely rebalances
this one's composition:
a lost, small bright shape becoming
the light giving heart in its darkness

[tanka pair on a dream of 10-8-15. On recalling this dream I immediately remembered having used the psychological technique of "reframing" earlier that morning without realizing it. Though I was clear at the time that I'd completely changed -- in a most positive way -- how I hold a particular aspect from my very early childhood. As I think on it now, doing that instinctive reframing may very well have been precipitated by this dream. Although I hadn't yet recalled the dream, it's clear the concept of reframing was active in my less conscious mind. (BTW, reframing is "the conceptual and/or emotional viewpoint in relation to which a situation is experienced and placing it in a different frame that fits the 'facts' of a concrete situation equally well, thereby changing its entire meaning.") Photo "A Different Angle" (3-1-14 021v3e) by Roswila]

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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About Me

Retired, I'm grateful to indulge in daily blogging, taking digital photos, writing poetry every day, and other creative efforts as the spirit grabs me. I also enjoy reading my poems and sometimes improvising on one of the musical instruments in my collection (e.g. didjeridu or kalimba), in our retirement community's regular Talent Shows. And I also occasionally play a role in one of
our radio plays, written by a resident,
and read on stage as if an actual radio show.

"Ganesh dances joyfully,
each step out of now into now again;
each footprint filling to overflowing with kindness.
Remover of Obstacles, clear me out of my own way;
teach me how to dance lightly through life,
how to spill over with love." -- prayer by Roswila

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else." -- e.e. cummings (poet & painter)

"There's a thin line between dreaming and waking... The line is not hard and fast. It's more like passing through a waterfall. Really it's just a two sided organic system; on the surface individual blades of grass, underneath it's an intertwined mass of roots we can barely comprehend." -- As explained on the T.V. series FALLING WATER

"You're only paranoid if you're wrong." -- quoted in a play by Steven Dietz

"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth." -- Pema Chodron

"The past is not dead, it is not even past." -- William Faulkner

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." -- Twyla Tharp (dancer/choreographer)

"Wisdom begins in wonder." -- Socrates

"Before the light which all things give off dies in the heart it must be expressed." -- Basho (haiku Master)

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.” -- Alfred Adler

"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert" -- attributed to Arthur C. Clarke (author)

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard Feynman (physicist)